Ambassador Bardhyl Canaj participated at the event organized by The President of the State of Israel His Excellency Mr. Isaac Herzog as an invitee at the reception in honor of the Diplomatic Corps on the occasion of the Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year 5782, held today, Thursday 2nd September 2021 at the President’s Residence.

Ambassador Canaj received the Certificate of Recognition awarded by Avital Leibovich Director of AJC/Jerusalem in the framework of the 30th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Albania-Israel on the important mission of enhancing the relations between our two countries!

There is not a more glorious history Albania present to the world than that of taking Jews under their wings during World War II. No one asked our grandfathers to take a chance on their own lives to save the Jews, like only few would across a Europe consumed by the Nazi plague. They did it, with no distinction of region or faith. The price for some would be their death, but none of them turned even a single Jew over to the Nazis. Thanks to their Albanian code of honor, Albania became Europe’s only country with more Jews by the end of World War II than in its wake.

In the framework of the 30th anniversary of the diplomatic relations established between Albania-Israel, in cooperation with Israeli Sot on line media, which for more than 10 years promotes intensively the bilateral relations and activities of our Embassy  and the Embassy of Israel in Tirana, as well as the Embassy of Kosovo in Israel, following our diplomatic goal to promote both our countries, we assisted in the publication of a series of interviews from Albanian and Israeli  Ambassadors over the years.